Question: When a female calf is born as a twin to a male calf, a sterile female is known as a _________________.
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Importentia coeundi
Rigs
Free martin
🔑Key Points
Free martinism is recognized as one of the most severe forms of sexual abnormality among cattle.
This condition causes infertility in the female cattle-born twin to a male.
When a heifer twin shares the uterus with a bull fetus, they also share the placental membranes connecting the fetuses with the dam.
When a set of twins is born and one is a bull calf and the other is a heifer calf, more than 90% of the time the female is infertile.
The infertile female twin is called a freemartin.
The hormones that the male fetus produces can cross to the female fetus and cause reproductive tract abnormalities.
Free martinism is recognized as one of the most severe forms of sexual abnormality among cattle.
This condition causes infertility in the female cattle-born twin to a male.
When a heifer twin shares the uterus with a bull fetus, they also share the placental membranes connecting the fetuses with the dam.
When a set of twins is born and one is a bull calf and the other is a heifer calf, more than 90% of the time the female is infertile.
The infertile female twin is called a freemartin.
The hormones that the male fetus produces can cross to the female fetus and cause reproductive tract abnormalities.